Thursday, December 07, 2006

"You bury the issue by having the thing defeated and it looks like it will be," a senior Tory campaigner said. "I'm not saying you deliberately try to lose the vote . . . You try your best, but the reality of the vote being defeated is it makes it very hard for the opponents of the Conservative Party to attack the Conservatives for a lack of moderation."

So, I guess raising the issue from the dead in order to mollify your reactionary wing won't tip people off that you may have some less than progressive elements in your party, then? The drugs they are passing around Conservative Party headquarters must be really, really, good.